Mentioned why not two LOA's. The company wanted two. NC felt one would be better. They felt the differences between LOA's could split the pilot group. (How come those guys get this and we don't? "the have and have nots") Paris would be easier to fill than HKG.

Scope impovement

From what I got out of the explanation, the improvement is in the individual contract between the pilot and the company that you have to sign. It's not a legal improvement but a precedent improvement. The company still feels that the RLA doesn't apply overseas since the only court action on record is in one single Federal District affirmation of that. But by signing a contract with the company saying that each individual is being covered by the RLA then that improves our scope protection. I'm still kind of fuzzy on that explanation, but it at least was one.